The longest game of football. The longest football match in history
The best matches in the history of football are still reviewed today by experts and fans of this most popular sport on the planet. When great teams and players are on the field, they are able to create real miracles: score an incredible number of goals, make crazy comebacks, achieve victories when no one believes in them.
The most incredible comeback
Let's start talking about the best matches in the history of football with relatively recent events. In the decisive match for the right to be called the strongest club in Europe, the Italian Milan and the English Liverpool met. The 2005 Champions League final will be remembered by many for a long time.
Milan confidently went the entire distance, losing once in group stage. In the playoff stage, problems arose only in the semi-finals, when after a confident victory at home over the Dutch PSV 2:0, the Italians lost away by the same score. In extra time, the teams exchanged goals, Milan reached the final thanks to an away goal.
For Liverpool, the path was not so simple. The team left the group only by beating the Greek Olympiacos in additional indicators. And in the semi-finals it beat Chelsea, thanks to the only goal in two matches, which was scored by
So, the final is Liverpool - Milan. The Italians, who were considered the favorites, open the scoring already in the 1st minute, the British level the game, but cannot equalize the score, and at the end of the first half, the Argentine legionnaire Hernan Crespo scores a double. The result: Liverpool - Milan 0:3.
Many fans were ready to despair, but not the players and coaches of the English club; the second half passed under their dictation. From 54 to 60 minutes, the Merseysiders turn the game upside down - Gerrard, Spitzer and Alonso each score a goal - 3:3. There is still half an hour until the end of regular time, but no one else manages to open the gate. The fate of the 2005 Champions League Cup is decided in a penalty shootout.
Liverpool get off to the perfect start: Serginho shoots high and Hamann opens the scoring despite a broken toe. Then the English goalkeeper parries Pirlo's shot, and Cisse doubles the lead. Only on the third attempt did Milan manage to convert the penalty, and the Italian goalkeeper parried Riise's shot. It seems all is not lost. In the fourth round, both teams scored 3:2. For Milan, the fifth shot is taken by Ukrainian forward Andriy Shevchenko, who fails to beat Dudek. "Liverpool wins."
The most scandalous ending
The 2006 final was remembered by all fans for its incredible tension and scandal. The tournament was held in Germany, but the hosts lost to the Italians in the semi-finals in extra time. Italy and France met in the decisive match. 2006 was the last year in the career of the great Zinedine Zidane. With this game he ended his career, he also became both the hero and the main anti-hero of the confrontation.
The French start aggressively and already in the first minutes earn a penalty, which Zidane converts. But the Italians bounce back quickly enough; in the 19th minute, Materazzi equalizes the score. The fate of the 2006 World Cup winner is decided in a penalty shootout.
But the most famous episode occurred in the 109th minute - it was a conflict between Zidane and Materazzi. As a result of a short verbal altercation, the Frenchman hit his opponent with his head in the chest. Chief referee Horacio Elizondo from Argentina did not see the episode; after talking with his assistant, he sent off the best penalty taker of the French team. Italy won the series 5:3.
Many believe that it was this sending off that predicted the outcome of the Italy-France 2006 match. Zidane later explained his behavior this way:
I asked him to stop tugging at my jersey, explaining that after the match was over I could give it to him anyway. After that, he insulted my mother and sister several times. I tried not to react, but words can sometimes be more hurtful than actions. His words deeply offended me, and I could not restrain myself, everything happened very quickly.
Materazzi refused to explain what happened for a long time, even publishing a book, “What I Really Told Zidane,” in which he cited 250 versions of varying degrees of wit. It is possible that he deliberately tried to provoke the Frenchman.
Longest football match
Of course, the longest football match took place outside of official competition. Such friendly meetings are often organized in different countries world, teams play for more than 24 hours, lineups are constantly changing, the main thing in such confrontations, naturally, is not the result, but love and devotion to football.
The record was set in 2015 in England. The match at St Mary's Stadium in Southampton was included in the Guinness Book of Records as it lasted 102 hours without stopping. The teams were divided into “white” and “red”; each team included 18 people. The Reds ultimately won with a score of 910:725. The game lasted more than four days, the teams scored an average of 320 goals per day, approximately one goal every 5 minutes.
Salvation in the last seconds
Among the best matches in the history of football, there are many matches in which everything is decided by goals scored in the last seconds. For example, exactly such a meeting took place in 2000 in the Euro semi-finals. The national teams of Portugal and France met in it. Before this, the French entered the playoffs from second place in the group, losing only to the Dutch (2:3), and in the quarter finals they beat Spain (2:1). The Portuguese team won three victories in the group, beating the British, Romanians and Germans, the latter with a score of 3:0. And in the quarterfinals they confidently prevailed over Turkey (2:0).
The semi-final confrontation was not easy. The Portuguese opened the scoring in the 19th minute through Nuno Gomes. France were able to come back early in the second half with the help of Henry. The main time of the match did not reveal the winner, the matter was heading towards a showdown in the penalty shootout.
The tragic ending for the Portuguese came in the 117th minute, when the main referee of the match, Austrian Gunther Behnke, recorded a violation in their penalty area. Zinedine Zidane's penalty kick was flawless, ending Portugal's hopes. This is how the France-Portugal match at the 2000 European Championship ended. By the way, in the final the French beat the Italians in extra time, becoming the best on the continent for the second time.
Ferguson's miracle
When remembering the best matches in the history of football, everyone immediately starts talking about the Champions League final in 1999. For the title the best club The German Bayern Munich and the English Manchester United fought on the continent. Interestingly, both teams were placed in the same group at the preliminary stage. Then the match in Munich ended in a 2:2 draw, and in Manchester the teams played 1:1. Both were able to make it to the playoffs, ahead of the Spanish Barcelona and the Danish Brondby.
The final confrontation began with attacks by the Munich team, which were successful. Already in the 6th minute, midfielder Mario Basler opened the scoring. The British came close to the goal of the great Oliver Kahn more than once, but they could not even the score. It is believed that the fate of the match was decided by Manchester United head coach Alex Ferguson, who replaced two strikers in the second half - Englishman Teddy Sheringham and Norwegian Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.
In the first added minute to the main time of the match, Manchester earns a corner. Even the English Danish goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel comes running into the penalty area to help his team. Crosses into the penalty area David Beckham, the ball is corrected in the air by Schmeichel, York sends it into the thick of the players. Fink manages to clear the ball, but Ryan Giggs is the first to rebound, and Sheringham sends it into the bottom corner. Manchester sends the game into extra time!
Everyone thought so, except the Norwegian Solskjaer. About half a minute after play resumes, the English are awarded another corner. Beckham crosses again, Sheringham throws the ball to Solskjaer, who hammers it just under the crossbar. The time on the scoreboard was 92:17 and the score was 2:1 in favor of Manchester.
The Germans were in such shock after conceding two goals in stoppage time that they did not even want to end the game. It was not without difficulty that the chief referee, Italian Collina, managed to persuade them to finish the remaining minute and a half. Without a doubt, this is one of the most entertaining football matches in history.
The main thing is the result
The highest scoring football match in history was recorded in 1979 in Macedonia. Perhaps he was not the most interesting, but he still went down in history. True, in those days the teams of this country competed in the Yugoslav Championship.
The club "Ilinden 1903" from the village of Velgoshti met with the team "Mladost" from the village of Vapila. The first one needed to win with as big a score as possible. In a parallel match, “Gradinar” from the village of Dolno Lakocherei played against “Debarets” from Belchishta, who needed to get ahead of “Ilinden” on goal difference.
The management of Ilinden agreed with the rivals to play a fixed match in which they would score as many as they wanted. The same thing happened in the parallel match, only Debarts also cheated; due to bureaucratic delays, they started the game 22 minutes later in order to know by what score their opponents were winning.
As a result, when at the beginning of the second half Ilinden was winning 20:0, Debarca was already leading with a score of 40:0. After that, two outfield players of “Mladost”, together with the goalkeeper, were constantly on duty at the goal so that none of the forwards of the opposing team would go offside, helping them in every possible way to score if the Ilinden players themselves did not succeed.
By the 89th minute, Debartsa was winning 57:0, but Ilinden was already ahead of it. The referee added about 20 minutes to the main time, Debartsa won with a score of 88:0, but this did not help, Ilinden won 134:1. The best forward of this amazing match was Naum Shapkaroski, who scored 58 goals, and after the game he claimed that another 18 goals were not taken into account for him in the official protocol.
"We'll kill as much as we want"
The most interesting football matches include the confrontation between the national teams of Brazil and Poland at the 1938 World Cup, which took place in France. The Brazilians at that time preached adventurous and spectacular football, paid little attention to defense, but scored phenomenal goals, and in large numbers.
In those days, the world championship did not have a group stage, and all participants began the tournament immediately from the 1/8 final stage, playing in a knockout game. The Brazilians faced the skilled Polish national team as their opponents. It was one of the best football matches, an example of a brilliant game with an abundance of goals.
Already in the 18th minute, Brazilian striker Leonidas opened the scoring. After 5 minutes, Frederic Scherfke restored the balance with a penalty, but immediately the Brazilians took the lead again, this time it was forward Romeu who stood out. Before the break, Peracio scores another goal, the South Americans lead 3:1.
But the Poles are not even thinking of giving up. In the second half, left winger Ernest Vilimovsky takes over. By the 60th minute he scores a double, leveling the score. But in the 71st minute Peracio scores again, 4:3, Brazil ahead. The opponents do not give up, and in the 89th minute Vilimovsky scores a hat-trick, the referee orders extra time.
During this half hour, the scoring extravaganza continues. In the 93rd and 104th minutes, Leonidas scores two more goals, making the score 6:4. The tireless Vilimovsky scores his fourth goal against the Brazilians in the 118th minute, but this is not enough, they win 6:5.
The Brazilians' tactics worked brilliantly in the game against the Poles. But with such an adventurous game, the Brazilians failed to reach the final. One step away from the decisive match, they lost to the Italians (1:2), who won the world cup for the second time in a row.
Triumph of the Russian team
The Russian national football team has one of its most exciting matches in modern history held in 2008 at the European Championships in Austria and Switzerland. The team successfully passed the group stage, managing to defeat the teams of Greece and Sweden; in the 1/4 finals it was opposed by the Dutch.
The Dutch team entered the playoffs from 1st place in the group, leaving no chance for success for the Italians, Romanians and French. The head-to-head confrontation turned out to be stubborn. At the beginning of the second half, Roman Pavlyuchenko opened the scoring. However, 5 minutes before the final whistle, van Nisterlooy equalized the score and sent the game into overtime.
It was an outstanding half hour for the Russian team. On the 112th minute, Torbinsky literally brought the ball into the opponents' goal from a meter away, and on the 116th minute, Andrei Arshavin powerfully and accurately shot from the corner of the goalkeeper's area. For the first time in modern history, the Russian national team reached the semi-finals of the European Championship, where they lost to Spain 0:3.
"Malaga" at the zenith of glory
For the modest Spanish Malaga, the beginning of 2012 turned out to be simply outstanding. The team finished in 4th place in La Liga, leaving Atletico Madrid behind, and received the right to participate in the Champions League.
At the group stage, the club did not suffer a single defeat, and in the 1/8 finals it overcame the obstacle of Porto (0:1, 2:0). And in the quarterfinals, he played a goalless draw at home with Borussia Dortmund. The return match went down in football history.
Midway through the first half, Joaquin put the Spaniards ahead, but Lewandowski equalized before the break. The end seemed to come in the 82nd minute when Eliseu made it 2-1 to Malaga, with Borussia needing two goals to advance.
In the first minute of added time, Reus takes advantage of the rebound and equalizes the score. And in the 3rd minute, Santana literally brings the ball into the Spaniards' goal.
Barcelona's feat
Barcelona, which many today consider the strongest club, took part in one of the most important matches. In 2017, in the Champions League, the team achieved a real feat. In the 1/8 finals, the “blue garnets” met with the French PSG. The first match was a failure for the Catalans. In Paris they lost 0:4, if it weren’t for Barcelona, no one would have believed in the success of a team that lost with such a score.
The return match at the Camp Nou began with a quick goal from Suarez in the 3rd minute, and just before the break, Kurzawa scored into his own goal - 2:0. At the beginning of the second half, Messi takes a penalty, it seems that what seemed impossible could come true. But all plans are disrupted by Cavani in the 62nd minute, he scores against Barcelona, the score becomes 3:1, they now need to score three more goals to reach the next stage.
A miracle is happening. In the 88th minute, Neymar scored the fourth goal, and three minutes later he scored a penalty. Roberto hammered the decisive ball into the Parisians' goal in the 5th added minute. The Catalans win 6:1.
True, this did not allow them to advance much in the tournament bracket. Already in the next round, Barcelona lost away to Juventus 0:3 and failed to repeat their feat. The return match ended with zeros on the scoreboard. The “blue garnets” left the race. And Juventus lost to Real Madrid 1:4 in the final.
Football is not only the most popular sport in the world, but also a constant source of sporting achievements. With enviable regularity, teams and players set records for the number of victories and trophies, the range and speed of goals scored, the scale and duration of games... History also knows many record-breaking matches. Read on to learn about one of them – the longest.
When did the longest match in history take place?
The longest match in the history of football was carried out and recorded in May 2016 in the British city of Worthing on the territory of Lansing College. This achievement was officially confirmed and included in the Guinness Book of Records.
Important! The longest duration of a football game is contested annually in various countries. Multi-day marathons are specially held in an attempt to exceed the achieved results. For example, in the same 2016, a successful attempt was made in Chile to hold a 120-hour match, but this fact was not accepted at the international level.
How long did it last?
Participants of the Heartbeat United FC society were previously divided into two teams of 18 people: “Team Heartbeat” and “Team United”. While playing football they spent 5 days on the field (from 26 to 30 May 2016), which amounted to a total of 108 hours 2 minutes.
Tournament Features
This tournament is different from professional matches and has a number of key features:
- It was attended not by football club players, but by amateurs, for whom such a long game is a real test of endurance;
- the teams differed from the standard ones in composition and number of participants (34 men and 2 women were involved in the “Heartbeat United FC” game);
- the tournament was held specifically to establish a new world achievement with the invitation of representatives of the Guinness Book of Records;
- was organized using donations collected and personal savings;
- an additional purpose of the event was to collect Money for charitable purposes. All funds raised during the 108-hour friendly were donated to the British Heart Foundation and a memorial fund for the three fallen West Sussex Worthing United footballers.
What was the score?
In total, the teams hit each other's goals 1,881 times. The meeting ended in victory with a significant lead for Team Heartbeat. "Team United" lost to opponents with the final score
Many football fans think that 90 minutes of a match is too short. The most desperate fans can play football even for more than a day. So, today the longest football match is considered to be the match that took place on April 11-12, 2009 in Great Britain between the team of the Bristol Football Academy and Leeds Badgers. This match lasted 36 hours and ended in a victory for Leeds with a score of 285–255. Leeds striker Adam McPhee especially distinguished himself - he scored 75 goals.
Each team had 18 players, each of whom played approximately 18 hours. It is estimated that the players ran an average of 70 kilometers during this match. Moreover, even during breaks, players were not allowed to leave the field.
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Many football fans think that 90 minutes of a match is too short. The most desperate fans can play football even for more than a day. So, today the longest football match is considered to be the match that took place on April 11-12, 2009 in Great Britain between the team of the Bristol Football Academy and Leeds Badgers. This match lasted 36 hours and ended in a victory for Leeds with a score of 285–255. Leeds striker Adam McPhee especially distinguished himself - he scored 75 goals.
Each team had 18 players, each of whom played approximately 18 hours. It is estimated that the players ran an average of 70 kilometers during this match. Moreover, even during breaks, players were not allowed to leave the field.
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1. Which goalkeeper scored more than 100 goals?
Rogerio Muque Ceni is a Brazilian goalkeeper. World champion 2002 as part of the Brazilian national team. He has been playing for the Sao Paulo club since 1992. Officially recognized as the goalkeeper who scored the most goals in history (116 goals).
2. Which judge removed himself?
Referee Andy Vane sent himself off the field in the 63rd minute, showing himself a red card.
This unique event in the history of world football was preceded by the following sequence of events. In the 63rd minute, Royal Mail scored a goal against Peterborough goalkeeper Richard McGuffin, thus leading 2:1. However, MacGuffin, believing that the ball was scored in violation of the rules, criticized the referee.
Wayne did not remain in debt. The 39-year-old referee ran up to the MacGuffin and, liberally using profanity, advised him to shut up. Then, as if having come to his senses, the referee took out a red card, but showed it not to the goalkeeper, but to himself, after which he blew the whistle to end the game and walked off the field.
3. Which club won 149:0?
In the Madagascar football championship, the Adem Club beat Olympic with a score of 149:0!
Olympic, which was playing away, did not agree with one of the decisions of the match referee, and began kicking goals into their own goal as a sign of protest. We managed to score - 149!
4. In which match were 36 players sent off?
In the Paraguayan junior league match between Teniente Farina and Libertad, the referee sent off all 36 players from both teams for fighting.
5. The longest match in football history?
The longest match lasted 36 hours! It took place on April 11-12, 2009 in England, two English teams played: Leeds Badgers and the Bristol Football Academy team.
6. In which match were 540 goals scored?
During the entire period of the above football match, 540 goals were scored! And the match itself ended with a score of 255-285.
7. Who scored 75 goals in one match?
In the same match, Adam McPhee, playing for Leeds Badgers, scored 75 goals.
8. Who is the “barefoot football player”?
There are several possible answers to this question. Firstly, there is an expression in Portuguese that means "barefoot footballer", derived from this expression is the word PELE.
There was also a case in the history of football when a football player scored barefoot at the World Cup. It was Leonidas. In one of the matches, his boots became unusable, and he was forced to play barefoot for extra time.
9. Who scored 3 own goals in one match?
Belgian footballer Stan van den Buys scored 3 own goals at once in the national championship match between Germinal Eckeren and Anderlecht in the 1995-96 season, which is a record. Anderlecht won 3:2 without scoring on their own.
10. How did the referee score 2 goals in one match?
It happens! The referee scored two goals in one match. In the first case, the ball flew into the goal after a ricochet from his leg, in the second - from his head. Fortunately, both teams suffered from the referee, and therefore he did not get any nuts. Moreover, the meeting of Spanish fourth division clubs ended in a draw